-Caveat Lector- Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com http://www.ioa.com/~davehart From: Jamie Shafer Do not ask me for a URL, as this article DID NOT appear in the online version of the New York Post. I had to scan it in order to share it with the list members, whom I esteem highly. wonder why they didn't put this online. New York Post Friday, Oct. 22, 1999 By Niles Lathem High-tech U.S. spy post drawing international ire An ultra-secret U.S. listening post in the moors of northern England is at the center of an international storm over whether the U.S. government is spying on businesses and ordinary citizens. Recent investigations by the European Parliament of the activities at the Menwith Hill center - a National Security Agency installation that reportedly intercepts 2 million phone calls a minute - has sparked charges the U.S. government is operating like a global Big Brother. "Private communications... are being culled out of the entire spectrum without any judicial process," said Simon Davies, director of Privacy International in London. The uproar over Menwith Hill has led to calls in Congress for a full-scale probe over NSA's operations to determine if it is exceeding its mandate to monitor matters of national security, like the operations of terrorists, money launderers, nuclear proliferators and international bandits. Civil-liberties groups staged an unusual protest yesterday in which supporters were urged to deluge phone lines and e-mails with provocative words like "fissionable plutonium," in order to jam a controversial NSA computer system known as Echelon. It was not known whether the protest succeeded. The NSA, the largest and most secretive U.S. intelligence agency, refused to confirm or deny the existence of Echelon. "NSA operates in strict accordance with U.S. laws and regulations in protecting privacy rights of U.S. persons," the agency said in a statement. The station and others like it was built in 1966 under a secret agreement known as UKUSA between the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, and was originally designed to intercept communications of Soviet-bloc countries. Now, almost a decade after the end of the Cold War, Menwith Hill has been undergoing a dramatic expansion, with a staff of 1,400 and more than two dozen "radomes," giant-sized, golf-ball-like structures covered with Kevlar that contain satellite and radar dishes on its 560-acre campus. Inside are operations with code names like "Moonpenny," and "Steeplebush," linking spy satellites and ground stations around the globe to a sophisticated computer processing system known as Echelon. These operations suck all communication - by cell phone, e-mail or fax - out of the sky. In them, Echelon looks for key sequences of words - things that might he found in communications among terrorists. Wayne Martsen, a former Navy computer specialist who worked at the NSA, told The Post the agency is intercepting 95 percent of all electronic communications in the world. Martsen says the NSA, which is prohibited by law from spying on U.S. citizens, is nevertheless working with the FBI and is installing "sniffing" software in Internet superhubs in most major cities to intercept e-mails. ======================================= http://www.druggingamerica.com More Fun Than A Tom Clancy Novel http://www.ciadrugs.com http://www.unfriendlyskies.com DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance�not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
